Reacting to today’s Los Angeles Times story about how “developer Philip Anschutz‘s plan to build an NFL stadium in Los Angeles may now hinge on whether state lawmakers will allow him to bypass some environmental rules so the 64,000-seat project can quickly get underway,” Berkeley-based bloodhounds MAPLight.org quickly uncorked a long list of lawmakers to whom the Denver-based billionaire businessman has made contributions.

Among Anschutz’s many holdings is the Clarity Media Group, which owns the San Francisco Examiner and other Examiner newspapers across the country. You’ll notice that very little of Anschutz’s political generosity has reached Bay Area lawmakers.

See where Anschutz has been spreading his money around, after the jump…

Below is a list of the $92,582 in contributions from 2003-2009 from companies and employees tied to Anschutz to state lawmakers serving in the 2009-2010 and 2011-2012 sessions of the California State Legislature:

Amid all the huffing and puffing from tree-huggers, there is no mention of the environmental impact on the proposed stadium site. I guess the Sierra clubbers think L.A.’s mayor is a sellout, oblivious to the “natural beauty” of urban Los Angeles. The Predatory Rich aren’t entitled to fast-track their plans. No, L.A. should look to the Sierra Club for help landing an NFL franchise.

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Speaking of pro-football stadiums, the SUPER BOWL on FOX TV would have made Joseph Goebbels envious. That’s why I stopped watching.